the lauren theory 2007

I hate it that my creative juices seem to have dried up eversince who-knows-when (I'd like to blame the pressure of my previous job, LOL). I miss doing designs I made myself, instead of just copying and pasting freely distributed stuff on the web. I open Photoshop and stare at the blank canvas for a long period of time; trying to conceptualize anything from scratch, but failing to come up with something even worth saving. :(

Meet my brand spanking new Zen V Plus.

I LOVE it! (Thanks, you.)

Still can't sleep. Had coffee late Sunday night with friends I've met three years back through Philippine Ragnarok Online. It was good to catch up with each other's lives post-RO addiction, hehe. These are the people I've shared the same passion with in leveling up, doing quests, over-upgrading armors and equips, breaking emperiums and taking over agits, and collecting as much cute headgears as our zenies (RO money) could afford.

This post is long overdue, because I'm still not totally over the shock of losing my dearest human-cat, Barfield. I guess I will never be. He died a few days ago, because he was fed something he wasn't supposed to eat by the relatively new helper. X( I still haven't fully accepted that fact, but I have to move on.

Tell me. How can you resist that look and that heart(-shaped pattern)? *aww*

Originally posted at Yahoo! News. Heads-up from Cute Overload.

I rediscovered Way Back Machine (for the nth time, actually), so I looked up the old websites I've had since 2001. I just found out that even the images were actually archived (because I was striving on dial-up before), but takes time to load. Coolness.

My first blog post ever was a little more than six years ago, which merely said "Test". :P First blog, first got hosted at Sugarie.Net. I remember Blogger having a split type window interface then, pre-Google. Haha. A couple of months after, I moved to Imperfectly.Org, where I used Greymatter as my publishing tool. There was the ballerina layout (first one at the new host), and the layout I did in a matter of hours before leaving for the States. The one blog layout I've had at Sixfeetsmall.Org (and the last one before I kindof quit from blogging) was never archived, only the hiatus page I put up before it.

Hay, fun. I miss those good old days. I miss making layouts from scratch. :)

EDIT: I checked to see if my old Hypd URL had any archives, thinking all I'd find are hiatus pages in black and white. Turns out I actually set up a blog then and I stopped blogging in September 2003, not 2002. :D I forgot about that.